Khatulistiwa: Journal of Islamic Studies
Vol 1, No 1 (2011)

MENIMBANG WAJAH MASKULIN AL-QURAN (KRITIK GENDER DALAM TAFSIR AL-QURAN)

Luqman Abdul Jabbar (STAIN Pontianak)



Article Info

Publish Date
03 Mar 2011

Abstract

There is no guarantee that the Qur’an can fully describe God’s ideas and thoughts. Even though God is all-knowing, He cannot transform all his ideas and thoughts to humans. However, this does not indicate the weakness of God, rather it is the limitation of language which serves as the medium of transformation; God’s language is limitless. So, how is it possible for the limited to accommodate the limitless? The Qur’an bounded to Arabic sentence structure, paragraphs, punctuations, vocabulary, including reduction, distortion and development by the language structure itself as well as cultural structure and readers’ subjectivity. So is in the case of gender, the existence of masculinity in the Qur’an also results from the influence of the language structure and the local culture.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

khatulistiwa

Publisher

Subject

Religion Social Sciences

Description

KHATULISTIWA: Journal of Islamic Studies welcome papers from academicias on theories, philoshopy, conceptual paradigms, academic research, as wel as religion practices, in particular, papers which consider the following general topics are invited; Islamic education, Islamic Law, Islamic Economic and ...